I’ve had my eye on a fascinating microcosm of MMO economics for a while now, and it’s officially reached boiling point in the Old School RuneScape community. The recent release of two new enemies – one of which spits out millions of gold despite being easy to kill and the other stuck behind an endgame … Read more
A flounder looks like a hallucination of a fish. His body is flat as a pancake, his head is permanently tilted to one side, and instead of having one eye on each side of his head, both eyes are tightly packed on one side. This anatomy, strange as it may be, is one of evolution’s … Read more
Few games brought as much joy to the crowd at their Summer Game Fest demos as Astro Bot, the latest from Astro’s Playroom and Astro Bot: Rescue Mission developer Team Asobi. During my 45 minutes or so with Astro Bot, I completed just about the entire demo. I say ‘just about’ because while the main … Read more
In the music industry, years into its career, a band often uses a self-titled album to signify a reinvention. “This is who we are today’ is the intended and unspoken message. PlayStation’s Astro Bot uses the same naming convention to indicate a similar fresh start. After a 2018 VR exclusive with a decidedly limited scope … Read more
Did you like Astro’s Playroom? Of course I did. The meanest thing I can say about it is that there wasn’t enough of it. I completed all five levels and the final boss fight in one evening. But as if in response to my hunger for more of the latest PlayStation mascot, developer Team Asobi … Read more
When the little robot Astro made his PlayStation 5 debut in Astro’s Playroom, his sole mission was to introduce the PS5’s new technology. Now, developer Team Asobi is working to grow him beyond his role as hardware hype man… while still using his adventures as a vehicle to experiment with PS5 technology four years into … Read more
Astro Bot will finally get its own full game this fall. So far, the character has been relegated to two small demo games designed to show off PlayStation’s unique hardware, namely the first PlayStation VR headset and the PS5’s DualSense controller. The new full game, simply titled Astro Bot, will have a lot more content … Read more
More than 200,000 players have now signed the petition for Valve to address the ‘Bot Crisis’. Additionally, players have started rating Bomb Team Fortress 2 on Steam, dropping the game’s recent review score to ‘Mostly Negative’. What you need to know Team Fortress 2 (TF2), Valve’s 2007 class-based shooter that remains very popular today, has … Read more